Ann: Becoming a substantial holder, page-19

I think you are talking about a short squeeze. Investors like short squeezes because when they happen the SP goes up fast and sometimes exponentially as panic sets in for shorters. .The potential for short Squeezes' goes up dramatically as number of shorts go up. For me I start looking at about 8% shorts. Simple if stock goes up shorters have to "buy to cover" in US this is a legal term and you are suppose to declare it when you buy. If you do not the broker does not clear the short.

Lynas Shorts. Most of the numbers I will use are JMO if you do not like them redo it with your own. If we look at 3 year chart on Short Man We see that Lynas has a background short level of about 2%. Current short level is 3.45%. If a short squeeze was to happen that means about 0.015 of the shares would be bought to cover 0.015 x 900M= 13M shares. If we look at volumes of last few weeks I think a SP rise of AUD 0.05 from a short Squeezer would happen. I doubt much more. Large Short buying and short squeezes are one time things and do not have long term impact! Covering shorts just like buying takes time JMO I think it would take a week or two. You form your own ideas. Here is a chart of recent activity. I would love to post short volume in this chart but a year or two ago Short Man upgraded their charting and removed the ability to download the raw data. They also eliminated the daily short trading numbers which were several times the size of the total shorts every day. Shorts are usually a very fast in and out trade.

	Date	Close*	SP change	Volume
1	18-May-21	5.45	(0.01)	3,549,782
2	17-May-21	5.46	0.02	3,626,042
3	14-May-21	5.44	(0.23)	8,226,174
4	13-May-21	5.67	(0.11)	4,719,599
5	12-May-21	5.78	(0.23)	15,666,363
6	11-May-21	6.01	0.03	4,636,191
7	10-May-21	5.98	0.18	3,567,478
8	7-May-21	5.8	0.10	3,396,712
9	6-May-21	5.7	0.00	5,426,006
10	5-May-21	5.7	0.10	4,644,579
11	4-May-21	5.6	0.06	6,043,603
12	3-May-21	5.54	0.04	6,710,722
13	30-Apr-21	5.5	0.02	6,204,743
14	29-Apr-21	5.48	0.25	12,022,026
15	28-Apr-21	5.23	(0.18)	12,700,207
16	27-Apr-21	5.41	(0.09)	4,840,161
17	26-Apr-21	5.5	0.02	6,561,803
18	23-Apr-21	5.48	0.17	8,971,723
19	22-Apr-21	5.31	(0.23)	11,503,150
20	21-Apr-21	5.54	(0.31)	36,702,877
21	20-Apr-21	5.85	(0.53)	20,795,990
22	19-Apr-21	6.38	0.20	6,652,776
23	16-Apr-21	6.18	6.18	4,108,131
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https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LYC.AX/history?p=LYC.AX